Chapter 1: The StaircaseA cog does not concern itself with the function of the machine. It just turns. And that’s just how Tyler Honeycutt—Ty to those who knew him best—saw his days at the office.
He had worked at the large anonymous corporation for a few years. He found a position he liked more than others he’d had and stuck with it year in and year out. The desks near him were filled with an array of personalities who occasionally cycled around to different departments, but most, like Tyler, remained. They were other gears in the bureaucratic apparatus designed to boost Yes Men further and further up the ladder until their heads were lopped off once they’d risen as far as they could, when their salaries outweighed their usefulness.
But like the clever clockwork inside a cuckoo’s timepi
